The end of the semester is near, and it's time to make some conclusions. Today we have to write about our experiences being a blogger for the English Class.
I think it was a nice experience, tough I usually did not have much time to write on it, or I just simply forgot it. Was very interesting comeback to write in english too, when I was studying English Literature I used to wrote a lot of papers or little essays in this language per week, so do it again after 4 years without practice was great.
Writting helped to keep more organized my ideas, and talk on the classes is easier because I don't have to think about the grammar or vocabulary before say something; also read in english several blogs about different subjects was very usefull, speacialy if I wanted to learn more words or english expressions.
I really don't know what to include for future experiences, probably to read more, or write twice a week on the blog would be great for the practice, but as everybody knows, the time on the career is gold.
If we keep using the blog for the next semester, I would like to write about our favorites movies, food, songs, or places that we like, also write about funny experiences on the university, holidays or parties, like "What was your best/worst hangover and how you get it". It would be hilarious to write and read about that.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Free Post 3: Concerts!
Hi everyone!
Once I told you that I really love music, I enjoy listen to my favourite bands on the radio, but watch them playing on a stage a few feet where you stand, is just amazing! My first concert was Fenix Festival on 2007, there played The Killers, my favourite band on that time, and since then I promised to myself, at least once a year, go to some concert in Santiago.
Keep that promise it has been very dificult, the reason: the prices. Although Chile became a popular place to produce this kind of events, the prices are completely insane! "Cancha Vip" is probably one of the most stupid and abusive concept ever made, and seems to be a complete sacrifice to see your favourite band playing the song that you have been listening to since highschool. So, working hard and saving money in cofee jars and piggy banks, it was possible go to many concerts and festivals like Maquinaria and Lollapalooza, most of them in company of friends.
Probably one of my favourite moments is when you are waiting for the band, and 5 minutes before the show starts, you can feel the anxiety on the air, you're waiting along with hundred of people that love the music as much as you do, and when the lights go out, you now that all the sacrifice you made, completely worth it.
Once I told you that I really love music, I enjoy listen to my favourite bands on the radio, but watch them playing on a stage a few feet where you stand, is just amazing! My first concert was Fenix Festival on 2007, there played The Killers, my favourite band on that time, and since then I promised to myself, at least once a year, go to some concert in Santiago.
Keep that promise it has been very dificult, the reason: the prices. Although Chile became a popular place to produce this kind of events, the prices are completely insane! "Cancha Vip" is probably one of the most stupid and abusive concept ever made, and seems to be a complete sacrifice to see your favourite band playing the song that you have been listening to since highschool. So, working hard and saving money in cofee jars and piggy banks, it was possible go to many concerts and festivals like Maquinaria and Lollapalooza, most of them in company of friends.
Probably one of my favourite moments is when you are waiting for the band, and 5 minutes before the show starts, you can feel the anxiety on the air, you're waiting along with hundred of people that love the music as much as you do, and when the lights go out, you now that all the sacrifice you made, completely worth it.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Julie Taymor
Today I'm going to tell you about a female stage and film director: Julie Taymor.
I knew about her work 2 years ago, when in the Design Workshop we were talking about classic drama nowadays. Taymor, an american artist, filmmaker and theater director, is famous for her work on Shakespeare's plays and films bassed on them, also for her work directing Broadway musical The Lion King, and films like Frida and Across the Universe.
Julie Taymor's work is very important as a referent on stage design specially for the use in her plays she of mask and puppetry on the stage as costume, changing the way we see the actor's body and this, at the same time, change the stage space. The use of this elements was an oriental influences because of her studies in oriental countries, specially in Japan, where she directed the Stravinsky's opera Oedipus Rex.
I really like her work because throughout the course of her career she had created an aesthetic and her plays and movies have an author's concept very recognized.
I knew about her work 2 years ago, when in the Design Workshop we were talking about classic drama nowadays. Taymor, an american artist, filmmaker and theater director, is famous for her work on Shakespeare's plays and films bassed on them, also for her work directing Broadway musical The Lion King, and films like Frida and Across the Universe.
Julie Taymor's work is very important as a referent on stage design specially for the use in her plays she of mask and puppetry on the stage as costume, changing the way we see the actor's body and this, at the same time, change the stage space. The use of this elements was an oriental influences because of her studies in oriental countries, specially in Japan, where she directed the Stravinsky's opera Oedipus Rex.
I really like her work because throughout the course of her career she had created an aesthetic and her plays and movies have an author's concept very recognized.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Free post 2: Birthday celebrations
Hello! Today I'm going to talk about birthday celebrations because soon will be my best friend Verónica's birthday, and that remember me a lot of situations along the years we know each other.
My friends and I always celebrate with special afection her birthday, because she is the first of the group on "getting older", and since we were on the school we use to do something funny on these dates. When we were on highschool, our celebrations were always after classes, with cake, cookies, nachos and soda, having a nice time, really naïve compared to the following years. Because you know, we all grown up and beers and tequila start to enter in our lives, and the celebrations were until the next morning. I remember the first time that me and my friend Susan get drunk on the 18 birthday celebration of my friend Gabriel, we started to drink and then talked all-night long about stupid stuff, laughing a lot and feeling very dizzy at 5 a.m.
Another thing that we used to do was surprise parties, that were really funny to organize, altough sometimes the surprise didn't work so well. Once, for Susan's birthday, she found us on the street with bags full of things for her celebration! Gabriel started to talk about school and homeworks, meanwhile the rest of us were running to the house and prepared everything really fast. Then she arrived and get surprised after all, because did not notice the bags.
My friends and I always celebrate with special afection her birthday, because she is the first of the group on "getting older", and since we were on the school we use to do something funny on these dates. When we were on highschool, our celebrations were always after classes, with cake, cookies, nachos and soda, having a nice time, really naïve compared to the following years. Because you know, we all grown up and beers and tequila start to enter in our lives, and the celebrations were until the next morning. I remember the first time that me and my friend Susan get drunk on the 18 birthday celebration of my friend Gabriel, we started to drink and then talked all-night long about stupid stuff, laughing a lot and feeling very dizzy at 5 a.m.
Another thing that we used to do was surprise parties, that were really funny to organize, altough sometimes the surprise didn't work so well. Once, for Susan's birthday, she found us on the street with bags full of things for her celebration! Gabriel started to talk about school and homeworks, meanwhile the rest of us were running to the house and prepared everything really fast. Then she arrived and get surprised after all, because did not notice the bags.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Bella the cat
This is a picture of Bella, my boyfriend's cat.
I took it this summer, one day that we were in his flat, and she decided to claim her petting time! She came to us very loud, because we were watching some Youtube videos and not taking attention to what she was doing, so she jump where we were lying and pass over my laptop, and the she stood by my side waiting for attention.
I remember that we started to say that she was the most beautiful cat on the planet and that kind of things, and she was delighted! Is so ladylike, and always taking too many liberties wherever she is, as cats always do.
I really like this picture because it was like capture her essence, the right picture in the right time. Probably in the future I will look at this image and remember her with the same curious and atractive gaze, waiting for some nice word and all the love that she deserves.
Free post 1: My new job
Few weeks ago I start working on a little artisan shop in Patio Bellavista as a seller, there I have to attend turist and chilean people who are walking around the place and offer handmade products like paintings or little figures that people buy as a souvenir from Chile.
It's a very nice work, tough I have to stay in the shop all day along, I always have something to do or just let time go by waiting for public.
It became a great experience, specially because I had know a lot of people from different places, most of them from Argentina, Brazil and USA. My favourites are brazilean people, they are very kind and always buy something with no problems or asking for discounts. And the worst are argentinean and french ladies, the first ones are always talking really loud and asking for discounts, and the second ones always think that everything is so expensive, and after touch everything, they walk away. Also I like see japanese people there, because after drink chilean wine the become really funny and chatty.
There is something that I really enjoy of working there, and that is the little wooden cats. My boss loves cats, so he always have thing related to them, and people love cats too, so they are very popular in the shop, sometimes there are people who buy these cats according to their faces, like "oooh, look! I'm gonna take this one with the weird face", one day a group of spanish tourist decided to get a lot of cats because they tought that these figures had junkie faces! That was a funny day.
It's a very nice work, tough I have to stay in the shop all day along, I always have something to do or just let time go by waiting for public.
It became a great experience, specially because I had know a lot of people from different places, most of them from Argentina, Brazil and USA. My favourites are brazilean people, they are very kind and always buy something with no problems or asking for discounts. And the worst are argentinean and french ladies, the first ones are always talking really loud and asking for discounts, and the second ones always think that everything is so expensive, and after touch everything, they walk away. Also I like see japanese people there, because after drink chilean wine the become really funny and chatty.
There is something that I really enjoy of working there, and that is the little wooden cats. My boss loves cats, so he always have thing related to them, and people love cats too, so they are very popular in the shop, sometimes there are people who buy these cats according to their faces, like "oooh, look! I'm gonna take this one with the weird face", one day a group of spanish tourist decided to get a lot of cats because they tought that these figures had junkie faces! That was a funny day.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
A nice beginning (OK not)
This semester have been not that stressful as another years, but still had happened to me unpleasant situations. One of them was at the beginning of this years, when I had to write a few request letters to the faculty and teachers asking for their support on the continuation of my studies in the University of Chile, and explaining my situation of being an student and working on the same time. The thing is that, at least on the career, everything was OK, but the problem was with the Studies Secretary, Ms Miryam. She is always having problems with our application forms, or being late answering our questions related to the faculty or scholarships. This years was not the exception, I needed to have an answers to my request before the beginning of the classes, and my letters were send on December, so I was very worried and a little bit angry for the situation, and some of my classmates where on the same, waiting for the official answers and all the formality done.
Finally, me and my classmate had our paperworks ready, and we all could start going to classes being sure that we were OK with the faculty, but put on question the work of Studies Secretaries and the administration, because is not very nice from the University have the students in that kind of situations every time that you need something to solve.
Finally, me and my classmate had our paperworks ready, and we all could start going to classes being sure that we were OK with the faculty, but put on question the work of Studies Secretaries and the administration, because is not very nice from the University have the students in that kind of situations every time that you need something to solve.
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